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Thanks to Rajiv for this
link.

A paper by Mark Koek written for his degree in Computer Science
from Leiden University, does the whole run of FSF, Licensing etc.
and is quite a comprehensive document.

Table of contents

1.
Introduction
2.
Intellectual property

2.1
Copyright
2.2
Patents
2.3
Trademarks
2.4
Licensing
3. Free
Software

3.1
Copyleft: The General Public License (GPL)
3.2 Other
free software licenses

3.2.1 The
Library GPL
3.2.2
MIT/X-style licenses
3.2.3
BSD-style licenses
3.2.4
`Dual’ licensing
3.3
Commercial Free Software

3.3.1
Netscape: The Netscape Public License (NPL)
3.3.2
Apple: The Apple Public Source License (APSL)
3.4 Open
Source
4. Free
Software business models

4.1
Selling expertise
4.2 Selling
non-free versions
4.3
Selling non-free servers or clients
4.4
Selling underlying hardware
5.
Choosing a license

5.1
Non-commercial considerations
5.2
Commercial considerations
6.
Conclusions
A. Full text
of the GPL

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